The Friday Five

[HenryBHough]

What was the best thing you ever built?

A 400 pound doghouse.

Not for a 400 pound dog.....the house weighed that much with insulation, windows, porch, wood paneling and hardwood floor.

 

[syrenn]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?


1) Inside: Atari, Electronics Kit, slot racing, strategy games... Outside: Cushman Mini Bike, Kites, Bikes, Balls, Kit Airplanes
2) Others
3) Truth or Dare with the girls
4) Sports
5) The concept of not sharing was unknown to me.

[MENTION=43831]RKMBrown[/MENTION]

was here a kit airplane that you particular proud of finishing?

 

[HelenaHandbag]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. My pedal car. Before I got a handbag, I was HelenWheels.

2. By myself.
3. The Game of Life.
4. Swimming in the summer and ice skating in the winter.
5. I'm an only. Didn't have to.

[MENTION=46151]HelenaHandbag[/MENTION]

What... not Hellonwheels?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdG7d3-r3YY]Paul McCartney & Wings Helen Wheels (2010 Remastered). - YouTube[/ame]

 

[syrenn]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. A football
2. With that toy? With others, it is pretty hard to have even a game of catch alone.
3. Not sure I would call it a child's game but we used to play a double solitaire game we called Nertz.
4. Sports
5. Pretty well.

[MENTION=5262]Immanuel[/MENTION]

football?? .... i don't know why, but i never saw you as a football kind of kid.

 

[syrenn]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Easy Baked Oven
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
I wanted to play alone, but my siblings were very demanding
3. What was your favorite children's game?
Hide N Seek
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
I loved climbing and swimming and running
5. How well did you share?
Very well, I just wish my sister learned to share. Damn she is stingy

Oh and my family was real big in playing baseball. We had a baseball diamond in our back yard

[MENTION=18988]PixieStix[/MENTION]

omg... an easy bake oven!!

 

[syrenn]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

Teddy
Other children
Putting on shows for any captive audience in the garden
Swinging on the front gate
Very well

[MENTION=44172]Sweet_Caroline[/MENTION]

what did you name your teddy?

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

Teddy
Other children
Putting on shows for any captive audience in the garden
Swinging on the front gate
Very well

[MENTION=44172]Sweet_Caroline[/MENTION]

what did you name your teddy?

Foo foo.

 

[syrenn]

For me the question was hot wheels or matchbox?

[MENTION=44536]BobPlumb[/MENTION]

and which one won?

 

[Gracie]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

This sounds like fun!

1. my bicycle. Gave all the dolls to my sister. Not a doll person, nope.
2. loner then. loner now.
3. climbing trees. Game wise...jacks.
4. none
5. I gave most of my stuff to whomever needed it more than I did.

[MENTION=42649]Gracie[/MENTION]


I got the biggest kick out of jacks! Do kids even play with them anymore?

Don't know if they do but I did a few years ago. Just for kicks, I bought a set (new ones so they didn't have the weight of the old ones) and my sister in law and I sat on the kitchen floor and played. Can't do it now cuz once I am on the floor..I can't get back up, lol.

I used to paint mine when I was a kid....fingernail polish, model paint, whatever I could find. Blue, pink, purple, black, white, red, yellow....and twirl them. My sister would watch and say "oooh..ballerina's!" and I would say "no! Colorful Twisters!". Ballerinas. Pffffft. Girlygirl froo froo stuff.

 

[syrenn]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Those little green army men

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
Before the age of eight I enjoyed playing alone after that with my brothers and friends.

3. What was your favorite children's game?
Football

4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
Football

5. How well did you share?

Not very well until I got older.

[MENTION=19381]Lonestar_logic[/MENTION]

the little green men crack me up..... can you even get them anymore?

 

[syrenn]

1. A ball and a bat
2. With the whole neighborhood!
3. Soccer
4. Anything competitive
5. I shared like a champ

[MENTION=39852]TheOldSchool[/MENTION]

What... no mit?

How old were you when you got your bat and ball?

Lol a mitt too. I was probably 3 or so when I got my first bat and ball

lol..... im glad you got a mitt too!

 

[Bloodrock44]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1) My Daisy BB gun and I didn't shoot my eye out
2) Mostly by myself after my sister graduated
3) Cowboys and Indians
4) Swimming
5) Shared everything except my bubblegum

 

[flacaltenn]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy? --- library books
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children? --- with others. the neighborhood kids ran wild.
3. What was your favorite children's game? --- playing house with neighbor girls !!!!
4. What kind of play were you most interested in? -- board games
5. How well did you share? -- pretty well, except with my brothers.

[MENTION=30473]flacaltenn[/MENTION]

Was there any book from the library that you checked out over and over and over again?

Most of the books were kiddie science. Nature and geology and astronomy. "How Things Work" comes to mind and my parents did buy that one for me. Later on as a 12 yr old, a group of us started an "astronomy" club. Which was really more of an excuse to have girls over in a dark backyard.. But we got the attention of school officials when we identified a UFO and told our teachers and parents. We could predict when this moving "star" was gonna be there and approximately where it would be on the horizon. Science teacher contacted NASA and we got an auditorium presentation from a NASA scientist verifying that we had seen a satellite. Which was a good thing, because we were all getting teased about being space aliens..

 

[syrenn]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Barbies.

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
With 7 sisters, other children. One sis and I were and are besties.

3. What was your favorite children's game?
Sorry

4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
Tether Ball at the park.

5. How well did you share?
Very well.

[MENTION=18645]Sarah G[/MENTION]

I can see you with the trunks filled with clothes for your Barbies. They are quite collectable now, did you keep any of them?

My daughter has a couple of them with a Barbie house but they are very well used. We get her a holiday Barbie every year so she has quite a good collection.

The new "collectable" ones are just outrageous....... I always wondered if they were for adults to keep in the box and look at .....or for kids to play with.

 

[Nosmo King]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

My favorite toy was Lincoln Logs. They could become anything! I got the big tub (they were packaged in a can like Quaker Oats) of Lincoln Logs for Christmas when I was 7. That Christmas, my cousins Beth and Amy came to the Big House with their parents Aunt Roxie and Uncle Jim.

Beth and Amy got all the Barbie stuff available in the Western World and they lorded their gifts all over me and my brother. We could care less about Barbie and her palomino pony and Corvette and her paramour, the androgynous Ken.

I took the Lincoln Logs into the dining room, set up shop under the table and began my plan of attack.

The pilots rallied on the flight deck and ceremonially drank cups of sake. They took flight at dawn and rendezvoused at Point X-Ray. Diving out of the rising sun, the bombers unleashed a hellish barrage of the short Lincoln Log bombs on the Barbie complex. Peeling away to the right and rising above the range of Barbie's feeble anti-aircraft guns, the squadron landed on the carrier deck, the screams of the residents of the Barbie village still ringing in their ears. Bonzai! they shouted just before their commanding officers arrived to rebuke them and sentence them to confinement until they learned how to play with their cousins.

[MENTION=20704]Nosmo King[/MENTION]

do you ever give Lincoln Logs gifts?

I had nieces, all girly girls, who would turn their noses up at such a gift. I did give them little tool chests with wooden hammers to pound Woden pegs and wooden wrenches to turn wooden nuts. But those gathered dust. They were all Barbie girls. A nephew with a creative steak would have been so much more fun! I could teach him how Lincoln Logs could become artillery pieces with the range to destroy any Barbie village!

 

[syrenn]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Planet of the Apes action figures, particularly the Cornelius one.
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
Other children
3. What was your favorite children's game?
Mushball , Play in the woods, Basketball
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
Outdoor
5. How well did you share?
Very well

[MENTION=24610]iamwhatiseem[/MENTION]

alright... what is mushball??????

[MENTION=23424]syrenn[/MENTION]

It is called different things...you take a baseball, take the cover off - and pack as much plastic bag material or socks/cloth etc. that you can.
And then play baseball.
The result is a ball that you can't hit very far no matter how hard you hit it. And to get someone out you can throw the ball and hit them with it while they are running bases.
You can play a pretty good game of baseball in a small lot doing this vs. a real ball that can be hit several hundred feet.

[MENTION=24610]iamwhatiseem[/MENTION]
lol.... never heard of that one.

anyone else...ever play mushball???

 

[syrenn]

1. Microscopes, telescopes, bikes, footballs, chess and army men

2. Both

3. Scrabble

4. Musical instruments, theater, voice, sports

5. Very well

[MENTION=40540]Connery[/MENTION]

you are the first musical instrument.... what did you play?

Violin, Keyboard, cello, trombone, harmonica, various woodwinds, guitars, voice etc.

wow.... you did them all! Were you any good....or were you just making noise?

 

[syrenn]

1) The wooden wagon my dad made for me.

2) With others.

3) Mouse Trap (yes, really)

4) Anything rough. (Snowball fights, wrestling, tug of war.)

5) I shared pretty well. My siblings, not so much.

[MENTION=23063]Rat in the Hat[/MENTION]

do you still have the wagon?

No, I passed it down to my Godson, Nephew #3.

It will go to his son when he's old enough.

very cool!!! it must bring back fond memories.

 

[bodecea]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

Well, since you insist:

1. Mattel Thing-maker.....loved that thing.

2. Probably 50-50

3. My parents' linen closet actually holds all the games we played as kids. Favs were Monopoly, Go for Broke, and Clue

4. Family get togethers with whiffle ball or "Kills'em" (also known as Murder Ball)....and if it snowed and all the cousins came over, we would sled down our hill and jump each other as they slid by. Needless to say, lots of stitches, broken bones and bumped heads in my family.

5. Moderately...

[MENTION=20112]bodecea[/MENTION]

wow.... good for your mom. Do you enjoy peeking in the closet and looking at them?

Huh?

 

[syrenn]

1. A red firetruck I could ride around in.
2. Both.
3. English Bulldog and Scully.
4. Lots of rough housing.
5. Very well.

[MENTION=25283]Sallow[/MENTION]

did the firetruck ever make you want to be a fireman when you grew up?

Syrenn, did you fill one out? I'd like to see your answers to these questions too. It's interesting.

no, not yet